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If only a few more Padres hitters were like Christian Villanueva.
“I’m just being more patient at the plate,” the rookie third baseman said before Saturday’s game against the Diamondbacks. “Just trying to wait for my pitch and not chase bad pitches.”
Or...

As
Tyson Ross
said, "It got close, but no cigar."
That's the way it's always been over the last half-century when the
San Diego Padres
flirt with a no-hitter.
Ross lost his bid to pitch the first one in the history of the Padres when rookie...

After Monday’s exhibition in El Paso, Texas, Padres manager Andy Green brought five right-handed-hitting outfielders to Petco Park. On Wednesday, Cory Spangenberg took fly balls in left field, his first of the spring.
That’s one way to fit two...

The ball rocketing off the bat of Atlanta’s Nick Markakis was ticketed for short-center. Even if Phillies shortstop Freddy Galvis was able to make a play — and surely he wouldn’t — you simply knock it down, limit the damage and play on.
Galvis, though,...

When the regular-season cools and the curtain falls on the Padres’ 2018 season, we’re almost guaranteed to see it.
For the first time since Andy Green was hired on Oct. 29, 2015, this is lining up to be the lap that begins to reveal a true,...

Clayton Richard is almost certainly the Padres’ opening day starter, though he is as coy about the likelihood of it as his manager has been.
Joey Lucchesi might not be on the opening day roster, though he is making it painful for the Padres to exclude...

Now that
Ichiro Suzuki
is back with the
Seattle Mariners
, he hopes to stick around a while.
"I think everybody hears that I want to play until I'm 50," he said through a translator. "But I want to make sure everybody understands that I always...

Freddy Galvis was born in northern Venzuela on Nov. 14, 1989. Seven days later and six hours south, Jose Pirela was born.
Galvis and Pirela would meet each other as teenagers when they both did the tryout circuit for major league scouts in their native...

Roused from its apathy for baseball, South Florida let out a long roar Sunday for Giancarlo Stanton, who responded with a wave from the top step of the dugout, affording the crowd a good look at the sport's newest 50-homer man. Stanton reached the round...

This was a win predicated on greed. But achieved by taking what was given.
After the Miami Marlins took the first two games of the Players Weekend series against the San Diego Padres, manager Don Mattingly said his team needed to “get greedy” in striving...

In October 2011, the Cubs agreed to a five-year contract with Theo Epstein, naming him the president of baseball operations. Epstein assembled a team, including GM Jed Hoyer, and went through the process of rebuilding Cubs baseball from the bottom up.
...

NEW YORK — Steven Matz carried a no-hit bid into the eighth inning and the New York Mets won consecutive games for the first time in more than a month, beating the San Diego Padres 5-1 on Sunday.Alexei Ramirez slapped a one-out single over first base on...

Cubs President Theo Epstein described Aroldis Chapman as a "game changer" who might complete the transformation of the team's direction and image.
In acquiring the flamethrowing left-handed closer from the Yankees, the Cubs made their biggest statement...

First baseman Anthony Rizzo was one of the few players who wore shorts when the Chicago Cubs traveled to Pittsburgh in early May for their "minimalist zany suit" trip.
Since the Cubs embark on an 11-game trip starting Thursday night in Miami, manager Joe...

Loser: Politeness. Few would dispute that Roger Goodell deserves to be jeered. But every time he walks on stage and opens his mouth? The NFL commissioner responded to Saturday morning boos by saying: “C’mon, bring it on” and motioning with his arms...

Cubs President Theo Epstein condensed his two major moves Tuesday night as the simple transaction of “trading” mercurial infielder Starlin Castro for two-time American League All-Star Ben Zobrist and pitcher Adam Warren.
But it took some juggling for...